Mumbai: Fire breaks out at a slum near Bandra, 15 fire tenders at the spot

No casualties have been reported so far. 15 fire tenders are present to control the fire. The fire broke out in Bandra's Shastri Nagar area in Mumbai.

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Mumbai: A fire broke out at a slum in Bandra's Shastri Nagar area in Mumbai. Nearly 15 fire tenders present at the spot to control the fire. No casualties have been reported so far.

Almost 48,434 fire incident have taken place in Mumbai in the last 10 years, revealed a reply to a query under the Right to Information Act. The reply came from the Mumbai Fire Brigade in an RTI query put by activist Shakil Ahmed Shaikh, who sought the information regarding the fire incidents in Mumbai.

The Mumbai-based activist, Shaikh obtained the statistics from the year 2008 to the year 2018.

This included overall data including the total number of fire calls, the total number of high rise building fire calls, residential building fire calls, commercial building fire calls, number of fire in slum areas, fire due to electric circuit failure, fire due to gas leakage, how many people died in the fire and the total property damage

Mumbai: Fire breaks out at a slum near Bandra, 15 fire tenders at the spotDescription:No casualties have been reported so far. 15 fire tenders are present to control the fire. The fire broke out in Bandra's Shastri Nagar area in Mumbai. Times Now